Pumpkin patches near Chino Hills, CA

Frosty's Forest Pumpkin Patch

The closest big pumpkin patch to Chino Hills, about ten minutes down Ramona Avenue, and the one that feels most like a county fair. A 4-acre themed corn maze is cut into standing corn behind the patch, and the lot around it fills with carnival rides, a Ferris wheel, pony rides, a sunflower labyrinth and a long path of photo-op sets. It is the priciest of the close-in options on an October weekend and it gets loud and busy after dark; Mondays are free and Tuesday through Thursday is $5, which is how locals usually do it. Separately ticketed on top of admission is The Haunted Harvest, a scare attraction aimed at older kids and adults.

Seasonal Adventures Pumpkin Patch - Eastvale

Known to most people around here as Stu Miller's, this is the lit-up lot on Limonite by the Eastvale Gateway centre, run by Seasonal Adventures, which has been putting up pumpkin patches and Christmas tree lots in California since 1994. Entry is a few dollars for adults and free for anyone under 18, so a family can walk in, buy pumpkins and leave without paying much at all; the rides, slides and obstacle courses run on ride tickets bought separately. It opens at 4pm on weekdays, which makes it an after-school or after-work stop rather than a daytime outing, and it is at its best after sunset when the string lights come on. There is no corn maze here, and no field to pick from: the pumpkins are trucked in and laid out on the lot.

Seasonal Adventures Pumpkin Patch - Rancho Cucamonga

The same operator and the same formula as the Eastvale lot, set up on Foothill Boulevard with the entrance on Mayten Avenue, a bit further from Chino Hills but an easier run if you are already up near Victoria Gardens. Expect the same low walk-in price, the same ride-ticket model, and the same evening-heavy hours: 4pm to 9pm Monday through Thursday, later on the weekend. Between the two, pick whichever is on your side of the 60 or the 15; there is no real difference in what is on offer.

Cal Poly Pomona PumpkinFest

The one on this list that is an actual farm rather than a lot: Cal Poly Pomona's Kellogg Ranch grows the pumpkins on site and students from the Huntley College of Agriculture run the festival, now in its thirties. You walk out into a real field on Pumpkin Hill to pick, and the ticket also covers corn mazes, a sunflower maze, a petting farm, a hay wagon ride and a cow train. It is the most expensive gate on this list and it only runs on October weekends, capacity is capped and it regularly sells out, so buy online rather than turning up; parking is a separate charge. If you want the classic pick-it-from-the-vine outing without driving to Redlands or Oak Glen, this is the closest place to Chino Hills that offers it.

La Verne Heritage Foundation Pumpkin Patch

The quiet, old-fashioned one. Heritage Park is a small historic site in the La Verne hills built around one of the last working orange groves in the San Gabriel Valley, with the 1880s Weber House and farm outbuildings still standing, and the foundation has run a pumpkin patch here for over thirty years. It is tractor rides, farm animals and a field of pumpkins under the trees rather than carnival rides, and it has been a Friday-to-Sunday, weekends-only affair with a classic car show on one October Saturday. Note that when this page was written the foundation had not yet posted its 2026 pumpkin patch dates or prices, so call ahead before driving over.

Mr. Jack O' Lanterns Pumpkin Patch - Brea

A tented pumpkin lot on State College near the 57, run by a family business that has been doing patches around Los Angeles and San Diego since 2010. Admission and parking are both free at every location, which makes it the cheapest way to get a photo and a pumpkin with small children: you only pay for the pumpkins and for whatever games and bounce houses you use, either by the ticket or with a day pass. Do not expect a corn maze or a field, this is a pre-picked patch on a paved lot, but the selection runs from jack-be-littles to fifty-pounders and it stays open into the first day of November.

The Pumpkin Patch (Placentia)

Billed as Southern California's oldest pumpkin patch, running since 1976 and reaching its fiftieth year in 2026. The entrance fee is a token two dollars for adults and nothing for children, and what you get for it is an unusually hands-on patch: pens of chicks, ducklings, piglets, lambs, bunnies and goats you can pet and feed, kid-driven John Deere tractors, inflatables, human hamster balls, gold panning and a gemstone dig. It is closed Mondays and Tuesdays and opens at 4pm midweek, so plan for a weekend if you want the full run of it. Note the address is Placentia rather than Yorba Linda proper, on Yorba Linda Boulevard just west of the city line.

The Pumpkin Factory - Corona

A ride-and-game patch just off the 15 at Magnolia, easy to reach from Chino Hills down the 71. The draw is that admission is free Wednesday and Thursday and only five dollars Friday through Sunday, with free parking, so the cost of a visit is really the wristbands and ride tickets you choose to buy. Inside there are inflatable slides, mechanical kiddie rides, carnival games, face painting, a petting zoo and a snack bar. It is closed Mondays and Tuesdays and does not open until 5pm midweek. Worth knowing before you go: they only take chip cards or Apple Pay, no outside food or drink, and no dogs.

Irvine Park Railroad Pumpkin Patch

The furthest of these from Chino Hills, roughly half an hour down the 91 and 55, and the one with the longest season: it opens in mid-September, weeks before anything closer. The patch sits behind the train station inside Irvine Regional Park, so the day is really the park plus the patch, with the little railroad, a hay maze, a gentle haunted house, gold panning, cookie decorating and carnival games. The catch is the pricing: weekdays you can walk in, but from late September the weekends need a timed reservation bought online per person, activities are separate tickets on top, and the county charges a parking fee per vehicle at the gate. Go on a weekday if you can.